Wanganui Hotels - Reviews and Rates

16/12/08 Wanganui After a brief exploration of Ohakune first thing it was back on the road heading for our next stop in Wanganui. This is a fairly major town on the West Coast of the North island and adjacent to the river of the same name. It has a busy glass blowing industry, shopping is also high on the agenda and the town is overlooked from a...

05/04/2008 Die Stadt Wanganui gefaellt uns total gut, ist wie Auckland in klein! :) Dannach gings weiter in den Westen, Richtung Taranaki. Hier am Ufer in der Naehe von Waverley verbringen wir die Nacht. 06/04/2008 Entlang des Surfhighway umrunden wir nun den Mount Taranaki. Leider ist der Vulkan wegen des schlechten Wetters in eine dicke Regenw...

Right now we are in Wanganui, at Tamara Lodge which is a pretty decent backpacker's with more than 80% ratings at the BBH. I still have like $10 to go to reach this week's target, so chances are I am going to be pretty rich next week about this time too. I just checked my bank account and I'm grinning away. Money!! Travel team rocks. I wonder ho...

Still on a high from the sky dive we continued on our journey. We stopped at Tongariro national park to check out one of "the best walks in New Zealand" but unfortunately the weather was awful and there was still a lot of avalanche warnings so we decided to maybe leave it for the way back. It was a fairly uneventful trip to Wanganui, we just sto...

On the way down to Wanganui we stopped at Te Kuiti where Theresa suddenly turned into a potential shepherd and a devout sheep shearing fan. It was an annual event a bit like the town fete with "the running of the sheep" literally thousands of sheep running down the main street of town, not as dangerous as the running of the bulls in spain but go...